The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-08-13


when the team ran away. He clung
to the lines and was dragged through
two fences. A large splinter from a
fence board was driven into his abdo-
men. The surgeons removed sixteen
pieces from the wound. He cannot
recover.
THE Eau Claire manufacturing es.
tablishments utilize over 4 900 horse
power and employ nearly l,l20 men.
THE land case OF the Minneapolis
syndicate VS.. Ashland County wss
non-suited on the 9th. Mr.. Brown. OF
st. Paul, and Judge Sloan, OF Msdi-
son, appeared for the plaintiff, and
Messrs. Kennan and Flanders, of
Milwaukee, for the defense.
A BRAKEMAN named Ryder was
killed at Fountain City on the 9th, by
being caught and crushed between the
cars. He was unmarried and had no
known relatives thereabouts.
A CONFERENCE OF Catholic bishops
was held at La Crosse 10 arrange for
the creation Of two new sees in Bishop
Ireland's province.
THE Ashland News says the Made
line and Apostle islands have been
visited by more people the past month
than for many years before. The old
church and historical painting at La
Polnte have excited the wonder and
admiration OF a vast number OF peO-
pie from all portions OF the land.
JUSTICE STEINLEIN, OF La Crosse, has
married l 100 couples during his OF
fetal career OF seventeen years.
The population OF Ashland is fixed
by the school census at II 600.
ELEVEN hundred men are employed
in the work OF rebuilding Marshtield.
JAMES P. WAkNER has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Hollinshead,
Price County.
A son OF Thomas Smith, OF Willow
Springs, La Fayette County, fell from
q horse and was kicked to death be.
fore he could beTescued.
The banner valued at $3.50, stolen
from the Madison Turn We're has
been recovered in Chicago pawnshop,
where it was sold for 50 so.
THE printers OF Ashland and Wash
burn have organized an association
to be called the Bay Printers Club
Chequamegon Bay-about twelve in
number. It's object Is social amuse.
ment.
WILL Mckenzie and Ella McCollins,
OF Lancaster, went 20 picnic. When
they returned they were husband and
wife Lancaster society i5 agog over
the "elOpement," as the marriage Is
there termed.
Arthur FISCHER, aged 1 years, was
drowned IN the basin OF the second
Ward fountain, Milwaukee, on the
4th.
A 7-YEAR OLD daughter OF George
Gilbert, q farmer living near Fan
Claire, was criminally assaulted by
an unknown nan who avoided arrest.
MILWAUKEE has another new mill
tary company.
THE dead body of a woman was
taken from tbe lake at the head OF
Juneau Avenue, Milwaukee, on the
Sd. The woman was apparently
about 50 years Of age, a German a"d
poorly dressed. She was seen sitting
on the breakwater some time before
She could not be identified.
A NUMBER OF important criminal
cases have been disposed OF at the pres
ent term OF the circuit conrt at Ash
land. Charles Wells, charged with muir
der, was convicted OF assault and sen
fenced 10 two months imprisonment.
John Black and Patrick Welsh were
found guilty Of burglary and sen
fenced to TWO years imprisonment
each in the state prison at hard labor.
Frank Heible, OF Hurley, charged with
manslaughter, was convicted and
goes to ie.il for term OF five years.
PLANS for a crsmatory, submitted
by an architect in La Crosse, have
been accepted and money raised for
the construction OF the building. II
will be erected in Oakwood Cemetary,
53x3O feet, OF solid stone, with halls,
galleries, reception rooms and base
ment furnaces. Two hundred La
Crosse people are pledged to the doc
trine OF cremation, and their remains
will 90 through the furnace, which will
be completed next fall.
News has been received at Madison
OF the death at Jacksonville, Fla, OF
Eleazer Root. Death was the result
OF fall. The deceased was virtually
the founder OF Carroll College, and It's
first president. He was a member
Of the constitutional convention
OF Wisconsin, the first superin-
tendent OF public instruction
Of Wisconsin, staying four
years, a member OF the first Board o,
Regents OF the Wisconsin State Uni
versity, and a. a member purchased
in MS own name the grounds now
used by the university, intending !.
the Board OF Regents would not buy
them for a site for the university, to
keep them for private purposes. For
many years he has been rector of
Trinity Church at Jacksonville. He
was s. years OF age.
TIE Great Lakes Steam Shipping
Company has been incorporated. The
inct Iporators are II. 5. Benjamin, c.
f. Land and VIM. j. Turner The
capital stock is 81, 600 900. The OBJ.
iect OF the business is the building and
operating OF steamboats,. The gener-
al offices are to be ct Milwaukee.
A COMPANY is about to be organized
in Milwaukee for the manufacture
of aluminium from clay by a
new process. By this process alumni
mum can be manufactured for II cents
per pound. 1t has heretofore cost
S12 per pound. The metal can be
used as a substitute for tin and iron,
and can be adopted for shingles, bath
tubs, door posts aud many other
things.
LARGE beds OF peat have been dis.
covered near Ashland.
BEREARD GROGAN, a brakeman, was
sent out At ashland TO flag train.
He sat down on the track and went
to sleep. b tn iegs were cut OF and
ne will die.
a BLOODED Percheron stallion, pur-
chased IN France by Leathem d Smith,
OF Sturgeon Bav, choke9 TO death at
Egg Harbor. The animal was valued
at 81, 500.